The Honor 8 Pro is a

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made by

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under their Honor sub-brand. It was introduced in April 2017 as a successor to the Huawei Honor 8 within the Huawei Honor series. The phone is known as Honor V9 in China.

Specifications

The Honor 8 Pro is a smartphone made by Honor, a sub-brand under the Huawei Group, as part of the

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series. It has an octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 960 processor (four 2.4 GHz cores and four 1.8 GHz cores), a Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, and a non-removable 4000

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battery. The phone comes with 128 gigabytes (GB) of storage and 6 GB RAM. It has a , LTPS IPS

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(LCD) capacitive touchscreen with 2560x1440

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resolution and a Gorilla Glass 3 covering. The phone's dual 12

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(MP) camera setup features laser autofocus and phase detection. Dual SIM is also included. The Honor 8 Pro measures by by and weighs . Available colors include platinum gold, midnight black, and navy blue. The Honor 8 Pro launched with Android 7.0 (Nougat) with Huawei's Emotion UI interface (EMUI 5.1).

Release

Preorders started to be accepted in early April in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The phone formally launched on April 20, 2017. In the United Kingdom, the phone was made available for pre-order from Huawei's small store. Honor planned to sell the phone throughout Europe, but not within Australia or the United States, as of May 2017. The Honor 8 Pro launched in India on July 6, 2017, and was sold exclusively through

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. Huawei had previously hosted a soft launch event for the phone in Delhi. The Honor 8 Pro was set to launch in Malaysia in July 2017. The Honor 8 Pro's packaging features a box that converts into a Google Cardboard head-mounted display for

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. The phone also comes with the virtual reality software Jaunt VR pre-installed.

Reception

Overall, initial reviews of the Honor 8 Pro were positive, averaging 8.1 out of 10. ''TechAdvisor'' Henry Burrell awarded the phone 3.5 out of 5 stars. Luke Johnson of '' TechRadar'' rated the Honor 8 Pro four out of five stars. Andy Boxall of ''DigitalTrends'' rated the phone 4 out of 5 stars. Reviews of the phone noted its value, long battery life, metal body, and fast performance. Rajiv Makhni of ''

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'', Andrew Orlowski of ''

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's Sandra Vogel wrote that the phone pricing is lower than for flagship phones with similar hardware and features. Reviews did however note that the phone did not have contract options in the UK at the time of launch, and that other phones offered better design.

References

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